HiddeninPlainSightAsianAmericanLeadersinSiliconValley.pdf

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: Asian American Leaders in Silicon Valley Buck Gee - Executive Advisor, Ascend, former VP, Cisco Systems Denise Peck - Executive Advisor, Ascend, former VP, Cisco Systems Janet Wong - Executive Advisor, Ascend, former Partner, KPMG The Ascend Foundation (Ascend) is a nonprofit organization providing objective analysis that addresses the challenges facing the corporate community. This report does not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors. Ascend disclaims all responsibility and all liability any loss, injury, damage, costs, expenses or compensation of any kind arising directly or indirectly out of or in connection with any act or omission of Ascend in relation to this report including, without limitation, the completeness or accuracy of the information contained in this report. ? Copyright May 2015 The Ascend Foundation. All rights reserved. No part of this report may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the Ascend Foundation. HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: Asian American Leaders in Silicon Valley EXECUTIVE SUMMARY During the past year, Silicon Valley technology companies have focused even more on workforce diversity, and several companies have shown an increased transparency by disclosing previously confidential 2013 EEOC data. The EEOC data released by five large Silicon Valley companies (Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, LinkedIn, and Yahoo) allow us, for the first time, to analyze the number of employees in the pipeline of management classifications by gender and race. The popular news headlines that whites and Asians dominate Silicon Valley employment often overlook the fact that the EEOC data, while showing that Asian men and women are well represented in the non-managerial professional workforce, also show th